Caren and the Tangled Tentacles
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
Programmer: Dr. Martin Wendt
Musician: Kamil Wolnikowski
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Caren and the Tangled Tentacles is a modern Point-and-Click adventure game. You take full control of Caren's actions and find out what is really going on in her little town by exploring different locations and interact with NPCs. The game features English and German language which can be toggled in-game.

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Awards

- Won the 'Interactive' category of the cross-plattform Meteoriks Scene Award 2016.
- Won the 4Players Best Szene-Game Award 2015.
- Won the Forum64 Game Competition 2015.

- A special edition is distributed along with the Kickstarter-campain 'Commodore 64 - a visual commpendium, 2nd edition'

(A limited number of 100 boxed editions as well as > 2000 times as Emulator image)

Programming and scripting: Dr. Martin Wendt
Graphics and animation: Oliver Lindau
Music and sound effects: Kamil Wolnikowski (recent interview) 

Specs summary:

- Fully handwritten 6502 Assembler multitasking adventure engine, 50Hz, 32 Threads
- Own scripting language which is compiled directly into 6502-Assembler
- Pathfinding, pixel-exact masking of main character

- Handpixeled graphics in MulticolorCharset Mode of the C64 
(in short: 4 colors per 4x8 square, three global out of 16, one unique out of 8)
(or: two colors in 8x8, one global, one out of 8 / maximum of 256 such squares)

- SFXs can use all three voices of the SID, alternatively: 3 channel music, no compromises (some sfx are strictly based on this research)

- fully developed on ARM architectures (and 6510 of course). Final build on Aarch64 (dragonboard410c) *g*

Controls:

Joystick in Port 2, only the pointer is being controlled.

Hover above objects and press joystick button:

1x - walk there
2x - look_at, talk_to, exit (on Exit symbol)
keep button pressed - toggle into item panel at the bottom:
left - use
top - look_at
right - use with inventory (release button on selected item)

In game keys:

F3 to select language (English, German)
F5 to select Textspeed (Defaults is set to 5)
RETURN to toggle panel-selection speed
F1 to LOAD a saved game
F7 to SAVE a game

http://martinwendt.de/caren/
